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The US-Iran dialogue and how it can affect the Iranian democratic movement
President Obama’s re-election for a second term has afforded him much more manoeuvrability on foreign policy issues, including Iran. What are the prospects for the US-Iranian dialogue in the next four...
View ArticleNot yet a revolution: the fight for women’s rights in Egypt continues
While the eighteen day uprising saw Egypt’s men and women equally contribute to the greater good of the country and fought side by side in the face of violence and drastic uncertainty, women’s rights...
View ArticleA type of coup in Tehran?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is erasing any democratic rights as he consolidates power. He is preparing Iran for a siege from enemies on every border and even some inside the walls.At seventy-eight years of...
View ArticleNew platforms, new paradigms, old newspapers
Newspapers have not yet found a sustainable business model because although they have embraced the new technologies, they have not fully taken on board the new paradigm. The crisis of the publishing...
View ArticleThe Chinese Communist Party takes a line from the Catholic Church
The notion of an end to corruption under the current system of government is a logical impossibility. Corruption is riven into the fabric of Chinese society.Since I began my immersion in Chinese...
View ArticleSyrian refugee camps and conflict in Turkey
Now that the short term crisis has transformed into a long term stalemate, the inadequacy of the temporary protection regime of camps in Turkey is revealed. Turkey is a party to international treaties...
View ArticleIsraeli-Palestinian ceasefire seems to be holding
Calls for comprehensive peace negotiations abound given the inability of conventional western military tactics to deal with the increasing effectiveness of asymmetrical warfare, and the need to compel...
View ArticleThe Green of Her Soul
A story from Liberia.It was not always this way. Normal days were the times when the sun was not so searing; and the hunger ate into her battered mind. Why did the revolution hit her innards, and the...
View ArticleMissing women: unequal lives in Canada
Missing and murdered Aboriginal women and their families in Canada have been let down by a structural complacency in finding those responsible for their deaths. ‘There is no serial killer.’ With this...
View ArticleWomen human rights defenders: activism's front-line
There is growing recognition by the international community that women human rights defenders are best placed to respond to violence against women and a crucial force for peace; but the international...
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Manufacturing 21st Century Reality
The author takes us into the heart of a vivid and authentic-looking antebellum scene that may be coming to your screens soon This morning I faced the truth. And it was again a lie. Which is actually...
View ArticleMilitarising Education
The incursion of the military into the British education system will mean that alternatives to war and peaceful ways of resolving conflict will be more difficult for young people to explore. In the...
View ArticleThe Arctic: treasure in the vacuum
The geopolitical scramble to exploit the resource wealth unearthed by climate change exposes enduring classic realist tensions in an era of common global security concerns.Our global common perception...
View ArticleMyopic Morsi and oblivious Obama: counting the costs of autocracy
President Morsi’s ill-advised and badly executed attempts to concentrate power in his hands will exact high moral, economic and psychological costs while the US administration looks on, says Hania...
View ArticleLeveson's report on the UK press looms... here's a podcast to catch up
We publish an interview with Angela Phillips, a leading authority on the British media, in the run-up to Lord Justice Leveson's report on the culture, practices and ethics of the UK press. With Lord...
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Private Prison Company Used in Drug Raids at Public High School
A recent "drug sweep" in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande shows the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom, assisting local law enforcement agencies in drug raids...
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New Pot Law in Washington is a Buzz Kill
Colorado & Washington State recently voted to legalize cannabis. Winston Ross of The Daily Beast takes a practical look at Washington’s new cannabis law.Two weeks from Thanksgiving Day, potheads...
View ArticleGive Pot A Chance
Social revolutions in a democracy, especially ones that begin with voters, should not be lightly dismissed.In two weeks, adults in this state will no longer be arrested or incarcerated for something...
View ArticleReclaim the future? An idea whose time has come
This weekend radical activists from across Britain will come to the capital to debate, discuss and plan for a future beyond the dead end of austerity.This Saturday radical activists from across the UK...
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Deconstructing false myths: Spain vs Catalonia
This Sunday's election confirmed the success of nationalist parties in Catalonia - paving the way for a probable referendum on independence. However, this outcome is alienating to many - Catalans and...
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